The Git's Coronary Bypass Bypass

i prefer dumbbell benching. feels less crappy on my shoulder, but its a personal preference thing.

 

12.01.15

Had a crackin' good home session. Felt the big-lad today; cardio was unusually well behaved, endurance was there, just in the zone. Especially happy that the heavy bag work was done > 60% at all times and felt like I'd good movement around the bag, good pivoting, etc. My speed bag was off on my right today, but its a good trade off. Most of all, tonight was the first time that I could properly hold, balance and jack-knife going into a dip on the rings. Couldn't incline to horizontal past a V angle, but this is the best I've done yet.

Wish it were not so rare.

It war a very nice treat, indeed that the wife and two boys joined me in my work-out. The boys and I took turns holding the pads for each other and that was so good - heavy bags are great but nothing can take the place of a partner and good padwork ( though when the younger bairn held the pads, had to squat down a bit )

The family being down with me had another benefit in that I was afforded an hour and one-half of uninterrupted training! We were all quite sweaty afterwards and the boys ate 3 suppers each afterwards.


The wife having had her 3rd spinal surgery (genetic narrowing of cervix) late this past summer, I advised her to not attempt anything on the gym rings, so she contented herself with 200 jumping jacks ( I was quite amased as she never works out ), the jump box, some isometrics and so forth instead.

This was done interval style - the round timer set to two minutes and a 30 sec rest. I set the clock and let it go - afterwards I stopped it at 48 rounds (alreet - 2minute round, then), though a round or two for getting water and another round or three teaching the younger how to do ring rows and such, some time for the gloves/focus mits, etc., etc.,




70lb bag....Speed bag...reflex bag...gym ring "crunch", 10lb slam ball with squat and spring-jump at end of each...medicine ball partner toss, gymnastic ring row (about 5 each set)...gloves/mits then padwork, 5 situps into a standing jab/cross, alternating clinch knees on the MT pads - that was the end of the circuit.

Not nearly as exhausted as I usually am after such - the kids took breaks to join their mum, from time to time as their attention spans get a bit strained after 30 min or so doing the same activity - a lot of fun, today.

Afterwards, some good stretching with the new, heavy resistance band I bought and some wife-assisted isometric stretches.

 

Top effort mate.

 

Fantastic stuff buddy, well done

 

Sloth...your new avatar is...priceless. I canna help but laugh every time I see it.

 

It still makes me giggle .

 

Excellent family activity Bubs, top marks buddy

 

14.01.15

Did repeat of Monday's routine with the two boys minus the padwork and adding chinups from dead-hang. Did better on the gym rows, worse on the chinups - maybe the heavy meal I had an hour or so beforehand weighed in (droll) on that. I'd been doing well on my diet but today was a breaker - It warnt that I had a lot relative to what I used to eat, but after several days of strict dieting, I could really feel the difference - so sluggish and heavy.

I felt slower on the heavy bag as well and my cross felt quite weak.

Going back into boxing class tomorrow - so I'll find out how much I've progressed or deteriorated then.

 

15.01.15

Horrid day at boxing class. Everything was off. The weeks I'd missed were not compensated in anyway whatsoever with home workouts. Fooling myself. sod it.

I knew I was in for it when I was gassed after 10 minutes of heavy bag warm-ups. Today was also sparring day and I don't want to even describe my performance this evening ... its all cardio - related.

I'm so tired of living this way. So goddam tired of being out of air...it dernt seem to get any better regardless of training, diet...

I had a visit with the doctor today. There is definately something up with the low ( completely out of range ) serum testosterone levels. They did follow up tests and found something with the FSH that didn't look right, so I'm being sent to endocrinologists for further work-ups.

The doc thinks that even more than the enlarged heart, leaking aortic valve - the screwy endocrine system is playing more of a factor to my on/off cardio.

I'll plod along like I'm near death, barely making it up the stairs and in a few days, I can do over an hour of interval type training. Two days later, the decline will begin and I'll be gassed skipping rope.

Really tired of it.

I'll stiff-upper tomorrow. There's no point now.

 

Stiff upper lip, Old Bean. At least you're looking into it and have talked to the doctors.

Hopefully all that provides a solution before too long.

 

Right, thanks. I suppose belltoller thinks to negate nearly 40 years of smoking, improper diet and little exercise with a change of heart and burst of activity at the end when its time to pay the piper.

Surprise, surprise

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This.

Also, have you noticed a trend in how many great days you've had vs how many not-so-great days since you made the conscious effort to move around more?

Are the not-so-great days lower in frequency and lesser in magnitude than before?

Know and appreciate that you are doing everything you can to improve it: eating well, sleeping well (are you?), moving around more, sharing it with your family (super awesome support ) and here, and seeing the medical experts too.
It's there anything else you can do? If not: don't worry, if so: work it out and do it. I know you can, look at the changes you've made already.

Deep breath, chin down, hands up, roll with it and keep counter punching Bubs

 

Okay first of all, where did you get that picture of my old college girlfriend?

Second of all, at least you're actually getting out there and moving, throwing your weights around (HA!) and beating up innocent canvas bags.

You could be at home sitting on the couch all day shoveling potato chips into your face while watching reruns of "Magnum P.I".

Can you negate the effects of your wonderful habits? No. But you can improve your odds.

In the casino of life, the House always wins. But at least you can stack the deck.

 

definitely a keeper, that one

 

I'm not sure what's more disturbing, that you have a thing for psychopomps or that you like to go really, really old .

This on so many levels.

Seriously Quazimodo ( ), if life isn't trying to kick you in the balls, you're not doing things right. All the bad days in the world don't stop the fact you're going to get good days and on those days, you may not be a world athlete, but you can bite life's face off for trying.

 

I have a thing for anthropomorphic representations of abstract concepts. Don't even get me started on Relativity. God...what a bummer.
(Are we allowed swear on this site? Don't remember seeing it in the rules of conduct...)

Look harder.

Exactly! We're martial artists, damnit! When life kicks you in the balls...you kick it right back! Ax kick, roundhouse, side kick, muay thai kick (yes!) it doesn't matter.

You know what to do!

 

Having been on the road for nearly a week, I've not had much log-time. Will update what I may.

 

Were you at least able to find some exercise time? That's always a challenge for the common Road Warrior (Mad Max notwithstanding...)

 

Aye, I managed a 1.2 mile jog one morning and was able to get on the treadmill at the hotel a couple of times - 3 miles one day and two 5km session another.

 

27.01.15

When I returned to boxing this week, I found they to be taking a break from the standard fare and putting the class through an introduction, of sorts, to some new drills that I'm not familiar with. Once this "intro" phase is complete, we will be alternating between some of the more boxing-practical routines as a warm up to the regular class. Others we wont be revisiting again but are expected to keep up with on a regular basis.


March/High Step

• stepping foot is brought up to the butt and flexed
• foot is flexed downward as opposed to a step
• perfect form

March/High Step with Skips

• explosive foot placement
• ankle remains stiff
• alternate leg/foot after skip

March/High Step skips with resistance

• rubber tubing attached to each ankle
• not done correctly, one falls flat on their face

Stick Drill (agility ladder)

• high step one foot between each rung
• fast as possible
• "faster belltoller, I said faster"

Agility Ladder Stride Run

• one foot every other rung
• fast as possible
• surprising need for good timing as speed increases

Now its outside for

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Fun with Tyres

• sprints with car tyres tied to waist
• High steps with tyres "

"Interval" tyre runs

• velcro rope used with heavier tyre
• slower start, build up speed for 15 metres then release velcro for a sprint for another 15 metres.

Inside for even more fun​

Wall acceleration drills

• while staying on the balls of the feet, lean against a wall at about 45 degrees or so
• bring knee into starting position (high step) and bring down as other knee is brought up - essentially marching against an immovable wall - very quickly

Straight leg Shuffle

• emphasis with foot speed and staying on the balls of the feet
• emphasise straight legs

Jogging-type drills

• focus on short stride length
• emphasising coming off and landing on the balls of the feet

Alright...this is boxing...shouldn't drills be related to that end? Not that my poor cardio couldn't do with the extra help these drills no doubt afford it. Some of them are for increasing foot speed and ankle strength but others...:dunno:

Anyroad, I learnt some snappy new things - so I'm game - just wish the heart/lung duo were more compliant.



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